Gan Guoyang said such a thing, which really surprised many people, including head coach Ramsey, who privately criticized this "thorn" for being too confident and not knowing how to speak in a low-key manner after listening to what Gan Guoyang said.

After all, this is the first game of the season, and it is inevitable that it will give people a sense of arrogance.

Gan Guoyang was quite cautious in interviews with reporters last season, and his speech has always been very tactful, but his post-match remarks were not quite in line with his style.

Including Portland's local "Oregonian" newspaper also "criticized" Gan Guoyang for saying that he spoke too indiscriminately, but the media also praised the performance of the Trail Blazers, especially their defense showed a "different" posture, which played an "unexpected" effect in disrupting the Suns' defense.

Of course, at the level of ordinary media practitioners, it is difficult to see the way, but there are some experts who study basketball skills and tactics to see some of the Trail Blazers' ways in defense, especially the Trail Blazers were blown several "illegal defense" technical fouls in this game, so that they can see the clues.

But it was just an ordinary regular season game, and soon it became a video and data, forgotten in the corners of memory.

For professional footballers, their eyes are always on the next game.

For the Trail Blazers, the first week of the season was not too difficult, and even a little easy, as their next two opponents were the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers in the same division.

But that doesn't mean these two games can be taken lightly, the first thing Gan Guoyang did after returning home with Bellman after the game was to turn on the video camera, take out the tape of last season's game against the Warriors and start studying it - Bellman copied all the tapes in the Trail Blazers training hall and brought them to Gan's home in order to facilitate the study of tactics.

"The Warriors seem to be similar to the Suns in terms of lineup, they are relatively weak on the inside, and they are not very good overall. But they're still pretty offensive from the outside, and I'm really worried about Vandewic, who played at an All-Star level last season with every small forward against him. Bellman said as he watched the video with a beer.

This is still the video of last season's Warriors' game, and this season the Warriors have seen relatively big changes in the lineup, and last year's video may not say anything.

"Things have changed, Mr. Bellman, I'll take a look...... The Warriors have new signings this season, and a guy named Barry Carroll is on the roster, and it seems that this guy went to Europe for a year and then came back this year. Gan Guoyang looked at the battle reports of other games today and said that it is reasonable for the Warriors to lose the game against the Nuggets today.

But Joe Barry Carroll on their team had a double-double of 21 points and 14 rebounds, and his 7-foot height also caught the attention of Gan Guoyang, a pure high school forward.

"That's right, Barry Carroll, I've heard that he went to Italy last year to play, and he was the No. 1 overall pick in 1980, and he was drafted by the Warriors. This year he is back. Bellman also thought of the Warriors, the former top pick, who did not renew his contract with the Warriors because of contract problems, but went to Italy to pan for gold.

He returned to the NBA after a year overseas, and it seems that this is the only place where the top pick can develop, and judging from his performance in the first game, he really deserves the status of the top pick.

"And then there's Short, a very good small forward, and Van de Vicky has some of them. And Sigmund Freud, whose name really doesn't look like a baller. Here's another one, Chris Mullin, rookie...... Mullin, where did I always think I had heard his name? He also played well in the first game, 15 points, but the rebounds and assists were average, and the overall game was not as good as Porter. ”

Gan Guoyang, a pseudo-fan, basically knows Jordan, Ewing, and Barkley, and even the famous Chris Mullin doesn't know it, but he vaguely feels that he has heard of it, and it seems that he doesn't know the name of "God's left hand".

However, at this time, Mullin is just a rookie, not to the point that Gan Guoyang should pay attention to, and the Trail Blazers' own rookie Terry Porter also played very well, with 6 points and 6 assists in the first game, only one foul, no turnovers, and a very good performance.

'It looks like we should deal with it a bit and I think it's necessary to take some of the defensive pressure off Van der Vicky and not always expose him to the best of the opponent's firepower. Bellman also racked his brains to improve the Trail Blazers' defense.

"You should talk to Mr. Ramsay about this, or let me play small forward?" Gan Guoyang joked.

"No...... Even having Drexler come is not a good idea, which would limit Drexler's quick counterattack...... "Bellman has been deep in thought, and he has been looking for a way to slightly compensate for the Trail Blazers' weak wing defense.

"Well, don't think about it, Mr. Bellman, these problems are not something that can be solved overnight. We should have rested early, I'm going to be the first to go to the gym tomorrow, and the Potter kid is up early. ”

In the past, Gan Guoyang was the first person to arrive at the Trail Blazers training gym, and now Terry Porter has become a strong challenger to Gan Guoyang, although he is often the second, but often only a little later than Gan Guoyang, which puts a lot of pressure on Gan Guoyang, and he has to set his alarm clock earlier.

The next day, Gan Guoyang got up from bed at five o'clock, when Bellman was still asleep, because of the mental consumption of being an assistant coach, Bellman needed enough sleep.

So Gan Guoyang ate breakfast lightly and went out, and when he ran to the training gym, the Portland genius in October was bright.

When Gan Guoyang walked into the training hall, he was surprised to find that there were already people in the locker room.

"Damn, did Potter come before me?" Gan Guoyang thought that Terry Porter got up earlier than him.

But Gan Guoyang took a closer look and realized that it was not Terry Porter sitting in the locker room with his back to him, but the team's other backup point guard, Steve Colt.

"Hey, Colter? What are you doing? Gan Guoyang noticed that something was not quite right with Colter sitting there with his head down.

When he shouted, Colt was obviously frightened, and his whole body trembled, and he hurriedly turned his head to see that it was Gan Guoyang.

"No... Not... Yes...... I'm just, I'm just changing, I want to come over and train early, I was so bad last night, so bad......" Colt said as if he was scrambling to hide something.

After Gan Guoyang entered the locker room, he immediately smelled something that was not quite right, as if it was smoke, but it was not the same as the smell of cigarettes.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Gan Guoyang immediately felt that something was not right, how could this guy Colt come to the training hall so early, and he was sneaky.

But soon, Colt returned to normal, smiled at Gan Guoyang and said: "My performance yesterday was really bad, so I have to be early today, I don't want to be robbed of the first substitute position by the No. 30 kid." ”

Yesterday Colt's performance was really poor, only playing for three minutes, all kinds of statistics were 0, because the performance on the field was too bad, and he was directly pressed to the bench.

Compared to Porter's remarkable, Colter's is a bit disgraced.

So his explanation is still a bit credible, although Gan Guoyang was full of doubts, he didn't ask more, after all, the two were both rookies last year, and the relationship was still quite good.

Colter is also very convinced of Gan Guoyang, and the two have a good tacit understanding on the court, compared with Valentine, Colt still pays great attention to making balls for Gan Guoyang.

So the two changed their clothes, took the ball to the court and began to practice.

And when Gan Guoyang was training on the field, he found some problems, and Colte seemed to be a lot more lively all of a sudden, and the whole person was very excited, and even chattered a little.

This is really different from Colt's usual performance, you must know that Colt was very old in his rookie season, which is why he can gain Ramsey's new trust.

Gan Guoyang knew that there must be something wrong here.

The third person to go to the gym was Terry Porter, who was also very surprised to see Colt, but he didn't suspect Colt, he felt that Colt must have come to practice hard.

Now Porter has also made Colter his rival for the team's No. 1 backup point guard position.

This is a very good phenomenon for the Trail Blazers, and the competition between young players is good for the development of talent and the development of internal potential.

When the personnel arrived to start the team's joint practice, Gan Guoyang found that Colter had a problem again, compared with the excitement in the morning, he seemed to sleepwalk in the group training, the defense was often out of position, and the offense was also chaotic.

The angry Ramsey yelled on the sidelines, drenching Colt with blood, and Colt didn't seem to react, as if his nerves were sluggish.

"This guy isn't normal." Vanderwig looked at Colter and said to Gan Guoyang, who was practicing shooting with him next to him.

"That's right, he came earlier than me today."

"Earlier than you? Did he take his medicine? Van de Wywig was clearly even more surprised.

And Van Dewy's words seemed to hit Gan Guoyang all of a sudden, he turned his head to look at Colter, who was receiving Ramsey's education on the sidelines, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "This guy maybe...... I really took the medicine. ”

A black shadow loomed over the Trail Blazers.